Artists who do not stand up for their principles trade a piece of their authenticity. In this true story, I tell about my brush with selling out for a grade.
I had an instructor in my last year of art school who hated the fact that I liked to paint people.
He told me that it had all been done before, it was old fashioned, nobody cared, I was dumb, etc. etc...so I finally stopped bringing my paintings to class.
I had gotten really disappointing grades from him due to his biases, and could hardly contain myself through his laborious critiques of halfhearted sketches, kooky high-jinks and tom-foolery submitted by my fellow classmates.
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